The City on the Edge of Forever Lib/E (Audiobook)

from DarthDeverell

Harlan Ellison is a brilliant science fiction writer. Nobody can deny this. Unfortunately, Harlan Ellison is a horrible writer of history. This volume, which contains the original, unfilmed script for The City on the Edge of Forever begins with a tedious, ranting, 75-page introduction. Ellison se...

from DarthDeverell

Harlan Ellison is a brilliant science fiction writer. Nobody can deny this. Unfortunately, Harlan Ellison is a horrible writer of history. This volume, which contains the original, unfilmed script for The City on the Edge of Forever begins with a tedious, ranting, 75-page introduction. Ellison se...

from Shijuro

An interesting screenplay from way back when Ellison was a writer, prefaced by his usual whining about how badly treated he was (in this case, by the entire cast and crew of Star Trek, Paramount Television and the Writer's Guild). Having read his version of the screenplay, I gotta say I liked the...

from Scotland

I know that Ellison was wronged a thousand times between his original draft and the publishing of this book 30 years later, but to read the 100 pages of foul mouthed drivel that he called an essay prior to reading the script took all enjoyment out of reading the script. We might not be able to fo...

from Unreachableshelf

Here Harlan Ellison presents his original version of the best episode of Star Trek: TOS, which could have been even better had it been filmed as written. There are one or two plot points on which the televised version improved (one of which Ellison only introduced in the first place because he wa...